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To: mountainlion

It is convention that when distinguished from a revolver, a pistol refers to a semi-automatic handgun.

8 posted on 03/17/2017 7:38:08 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)

To: Yo-Yo

Couldn’t a pistol also be a firelock, matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or any number of single and double barreled modern guns?

13 posted on 03/17/2017 7:55:01 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")

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